The aim of my discourse is for designers to communicate. I need to add an onebox which is the largest design website in our country . But this website does not support onebox.What should I do?
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tran is seeking to enable oneboxing for the Chinese design website zcool.com.cn on their Discourse forum to improve designer communication, but the site lacks OpenGraph or oEmbed support, preventing automatic embedding. mikechristopher explains that oneboxing requires these metadata standards. pfaffman suggests testing the URL via iframely.com/debug and advises contacting the site’s admins to request standard compliance, noting that custom plugins are a costly alternative. tran shares the specific URL (http://www.zcool.com.cn/work/ZMjYyNTczMjQ=.html), confirming it returns “no embeds for that URL.” pfaffman reiterates that pushing the site to adopt web standards is preferable, as custom plugins benefit only Discourse instances that install them. If pursuing a plugin, pfaffman recommends posting in Marketplace with a budget, estimating development costs between US$500–$1500, depending on complexity. The discussion underscores the importance of web standards for interoperability and the trade-offs of custom development.
In order for the link to come up as a onebox they need to have opengraph or oembed meta tags
You see what you see when you paste the site into Iframely URL Debugger - Open Graph, Twitter Cards, oEmbed
Then you ask the site why they don’t follow the standards that make their site usable.
If required you pay to have a custom plugin developed or become a customer of Discourse.org as customer needs are taken care of first.
Is there a reason not to share the site name here? There is no way to diagnose the problem without being able to see it. What if you paste a link here or in try what happens?
link:http://www.zcool.com.cn/work/ZMjYyNTczMjQ=.html .I saw the site showed “no embeds for that URL” when I pasted the site.If I pay to a custom plugin,what can I need to do?
I’d first contact the site administrators and ask if they’ll support the standard. It would make their site more useful all over the web, where developing a plugin for Discourse will make their site useful only on the few sites that choose to use the plugin.
You can post your request in Marketplace. Be sure to include a budget. It’s unclear just how difficult it’ll be. My wild guess is in the US$500-$1500 range.